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Prot"es*tant*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. protestantisme.] The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.
Prot"es*tant*ly, adv. Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism. [R.] Milton.
Prot`es*ta"tion (?), n. [L. protestatio: cf. F. protestation. See Protest.] 1. The act of making a protest; a public avowal; a solemn declaration, especially of dissent. " The protestation of our faith." Latimer.
2. (Law) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.
Prot"es*ta`tor (?), n. [Cf. F. protestateur.] One who makes protestation; a protester.
Pro*test"er (?), n. 1. One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak.
2. (Law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
Pro*test"ing*ly, adv. By way of protesting.
Pro"te*us (?), n. [L., Gr. &?;.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.
2. (Zoˆl.) (a) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak. (b) A changeable protozoan; an amúba.
{ Pro`tha*la"mi*on (?), Pro`tha*la"mi*um (?), } n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; before + &?; chamber, especially, the bridal chamber.] A song in celebration of a marriage. Drayton.
||Pro*thal"li*um (?), n.; pl. Prothallia (#). [NL.] (Bot.) Same as ||Prothallus.
||Pro*thal"lus (?), n.; pl. Prothalli (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; before + ||&?; a young shoot.] (Bot.) The minute primary growth from the spore ||of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; ||the oˆphoric generation of ferns, etc.
||Proth"e*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a placing in public, fr. &?; to ||set before; &?; before + &?; to set, put.] 1. (Eccl.) A credence ||table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
2. (Med.) See Prosthesis. Dunglison.
Pro*thet"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;.] Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus.
{ Pro*thon"o*ta*ry (?), or Pro*ton"o*ta*ry (?) }, n.; pl> -ries (#). [LL. protonotarius, fr. Gr. prw^tos first + L. notarius a shorthand writer, a scribe: cf. F. protonotaire.] 1. A chief notary or clerk. " My private prothonotary." Herrick.
2. Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master. [Eng.] Wharton. Burrill.
3. A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States of the United States.
4. (R. C. Ch.) Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.
5. (Gr. Ch.) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
Prothonotary warbler (Zoˆl.), a small American warbler (Protonotaria citrea). The general color is golden yellow, the back is olivaceous, the rump and tail are ash- color, several outer tail feathers are
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Pro*thon"o*ta*ry*ship, n. Office of a prothonotary.
Pro`tho*rac"ic (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the prothorax.
Pro*tho"rax (?), n. [Pref. pro- + thorax.] (Zoˆl.) The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
||Pro* thy`a*lo*so"ma (?), n.; pl. Prothyalosomata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. ||prw^tos first + "y`alos glass + &?;, &?;, body.] (Biol.) The ||investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric ||germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.
Pro*thy"a*lo*some (?), n. (Biol.) Same as Prothyalosoma.
Pro"tist (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Protista.
||Pro*tis"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. prw`tistos first.] (Zoˆl.) A ||provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic ||organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others ||animals.
||Pro*tis"ton (?), n.; pl. Protista (#). [NL.] (Zoˆl.) One of the ||Protista.
Pro"to- (?). [Gr. prw^tos first, a superl. fr. pro` before. See Pro-.] 1. A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.
2. (Chem.) (a) Denoting the first or lowest of a series, or the one having the smallest amount of the element to the name of which it is prefixed; as protoxide, protochloride, etc. (b) Sometimes used as equivalent to mono-, as indicating that the compound has but one atom of the element to the name of which it is prefixed. Also used adjectively.
Pro`to*ca*non"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero- canonical.
Pro`to*cat`e*chu"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself yields pyrocatechin.
Pro`to*cer"cal (?), a. [Proto- + Gr. &?; the tail.] (Zoˆl.) Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal.
||Pro`to*coc"cus (?), n. [NL. See Proto-, and Coccus.] (Bot.) A genus ||of minute unicellular algÊ including the red snow plant (Protococcus ||nivalis).
Pro"to*col (?), n. [F. protocole, LL. protocollum, fr. Gr. &?; the first leaf glued to the rolls of papyrus and the notarial documents, on which the date was written; prw^tos the first (see Proto-) + &?; glue.] 1. The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument. Burrill.
2. The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.
3. (Diplomacy) (a) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on. (b) A convention not formally ratified. (c) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.
Pro"to*col, v. t. To make a protocol of.
Pro"to*col, v. i. To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols. Carlyle.
Pro"to*col`ist, n. One who draughts protocols.
Pro"to*conch (?), n. [Proto- + conch.] (Zoˆl.) The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.
Pro`to-Dor*ic (?), a. [Proto- + Doric.] (Arch.) Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.
Pro"to*gine (?), n. [Proto- + root of Gr. &?; to be born: cf. F. protogyne.] (Min.) A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.
Pro*tog"y*nous (?), a. [Proto + Gr. gynh` a woman.] (Bot.) Same as Proterogynous.
||Pro`to*hip"pus (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; first + &?; horse.] ||(Paleon.) A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had ||three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.
Pro"to*mar`tyr (?), n. [LL., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; first + &?; martyr: cf. F. protomartyr. See Proto- , and Martyr.] The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Pro`to*mer"ite (?), n. [Proto- + -mere + -ite.] (Zoˆl.) The second segment of one of the GregarinÊ.
Pro`to*mor"phic (?), a. [Proto- + Gr. &?; form.] (Biol.) Having the most primitive character; in the earliest form; as, a protomorphic layer of tissue. H. Spencer.
||Pro`to*ne"ma (?), n.; pl. Protonemata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; first + ||&?;, &?;, a thread.] (Bot.) The primary growth from the spore of a ||moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any ||part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.
Pro*ton"o*ta*ry (?), n. Same as Prothonotary.
Pro`to*ˆr"gan*ism (?), n. [Proto- + organism.] (Biol.) An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
||Pro`to*pap"as (&?;), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; a chief priest.] (Gr. Ch.) ||A protopope.
Pro"to*phyte (?), n. [Proto- + Gr. &?; a plant.] (Bot.) Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.
The protophytes (Protophyta) are by some botanists considered an independent branch or class of the vegetable kingdom, and made to include the lowest forms of both fungi and algÊ, as slime molds, Bacteria, the nostocs, etc. Cf. Carpophyte, and Oˆphyte.
Pro`to*phy*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Proto- + phytology.] Paleobotany.
Pro"to*pine (?), n. [Proto- + opium.] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Pro"to*plasm (?), n. [Proto- + Gr. &?; form, fr. &?; to mold.] (Biol.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.
The lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of the higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm.
Pro`to*plas*mat"ic (?), a. Protoplasmic.
Pro`to*plas"mic (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.
2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm.
Pro"to*plast (?), n. [L. protoplastus the first man, Gr. &?; formed or created first; &?; first + &?; formed, fr. &?; to form.]
1. The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.
2. (Biol.) A first-formed organized body; the first individual, or pair of individuals, of a species.
A species is a class of individuals, each of which is hypothetically considered to be the descendant of the same protoplast, or of the same pair of protoplasts.
Latham.
||Pro`to*plas"ta (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) A division of fresh-water ||rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched ||pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.
Pro`to*plas"tic (?), a. First- formed. Howell.
Pro*top"o*dite (?), n. [Proto- + Gr. &?;, &?;, foot.] (Zoˆl.) The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.
Pro"to*pope (?), n. [Proto- + pope: cf. F. protopope, Russ. protopop'.] (Gr. Ch.) One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.
||Pro*top"te*rus (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; first + &?; a feather ||(taken to mean, fin).] (Zoˆl.) See Komtok.
Pro"to*salt (?), n. [Proto- + salt.] (Chem.) A salt derived from a protoxide base. [Obs.]
Pro`to*sil"i*cate (?), n. [Proto- + silicate.] (Chem.) A silicate formed with the lowest proportion of silicic acid, or having but one atom of silicon in the molecule.
Pro`to*so"mite (?), n. [Proto- + somite.] (Zoˆl.) One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.
Pro`to*sul"phide (?), n. [Proto- + sulphide.] (Chem.) That one of a series of sulphides of any element which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one atom of sulphur in the molecule.
Pro`to*sul"phu*ret (?), n. [Proto- + sulphuret.] (Chem.) A protosulphide. [Obs.]
||Pro`to*the"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. prw^tos first + qhri`on, ||dim. of qh`r beast.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Monotremata.
||Pro`to*tra`che*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Proto-, and Trachea.] ||(Zoˆl.) Same as Malacopoda.
Pro"to*type (?), n. [F., from L. prototypus original, primitive, Gr. &?;, &?;; &?; first + &?; type, model. See Proto-, and Type] An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype.
Burke.
Pro`to*ver"te*bra (?), n.; pl. ProtovertebrÊ . [Proto- + vertebra.] (Anat.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
The protovertebrÊ were long regarded as rudiments of the permanent vertebrÊ, but they are now known to give rise to the dorsal muscles and other structures as well as the vertebral column. See Myotome.
Pro`to*ver"te*bral (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the protovertebrÊ.
Pro*tox"ide (?), n. [Proto- + oxide: cf. F. protoxide.] (Chem.) That one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen. See Proto-, 2 (b).
protoxide of nitrogen, laughing gas, now called hyponitrous oxide. See under Laughing.
Pro*tox"i*dize (?), v. t. (Chem.) To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
||Pro`to*zo"a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; first + &?; an animal.] ||(Zoˆl.) The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.
The entire animal consists of a single cell which is variously modified; but in many species a number of these simple zooids are united together so as to form a compound body or organism, as in the Foraminifera and VorticellÊ. The reproduction takes place by fission, or by the breaking up of the contents of the body after encystment, each portion becoming a distinct animal, or in other ways, but never by true eggs. The principal divisions are Rhizopoda, GregarinÊ, and Infusoria. See also Foraminifera, Heliozoa, Protoplasta, Radiolaria, Flagellata, Ciliata.
Pro`to*zo"an (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Protozoa. -- n. One of the Protozoa.
Pro`to*zo"ic (?), a. 1. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.
2. (Geol.) Containing remains of the earliest discovered life of the globe, which included mollusks, radiates and protozoans.
||Pro`to*zo"ˆn (-n), n.; pl. Protozoa (#). [NL.] (Zoˆl.) (a) One of the ||Protozoa. (b) A single zooid of a compound protozoan.
Pro`to*zo"ˆ*nite (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic arthropod.
||Pro*tra`che*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Pro-, and Trachea.] (Zoˆl.) ||Same as Malacopoda.
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Pro*tract" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Protracted; p. pr. vb. n. Protracting.] [L. protractus, p. p. of protrahere to forth, protract; pro forward + trahere to draw. See Portrait, Portray.] 1. To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
2. To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty. Shak.
3. (Surv.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
4. (Zoˆl.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
Pro*tract", n. [L. protractus.] Tedious continuance or delay. [Obs.] Spenser.
Pro*tract`ed (?), a. Prolonged; continued.
Protracted meeting,a religious meeting continued for many successive days. [U. S.]
-- Pro*tract"ed*ly, adv. -- Pro*tract"ed*ness, n.
Pro*tract"er (?), n. A protractor.
Pro*tract"ile (?), a. Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
Pro*trac"tion (?), n. [L. protractio.] 1. A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
A protraction only of what is worst in life.
Mallock.
2. (Surv.) (a) The act or process of making a plot on paper. (b) A plot on paper.
Pro*tract"ive (?), a. Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
He suffered their protractive arts.
Dryden.
Pro*tract"or (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction.
2. A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.
3. (Surg.) An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound.
4. (Anat.) A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.
5. An adjustable pattern used by tailors. Knight.
Pro*trep"tic*al (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to turn forward, to urge on.] Adapted to persuade; hortatory; persuasive. [Obs.] Bp. Ward.
Pro*trud"a*ble (?), a. That may be protruded; protrusile. Darwin.
Pro*trude" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Protruded; p. pr. & vb. n. Protruding.] [L. protrudere, protrusum; pro forward + trudere to thrust. See Threat.]
1. To thrust forward; to drive or force along. Locke.
2. To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
Thomson.
Pro*trude", v. i. To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project.
The parts protrude beyond the skin.
Bacon.
Pro*tru"sile (?), a. Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.
Pro*tru"sion (?), n. 1. The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.
2. The state of being protruded, or thrust forward.
Pro*tru"sive (?), a. 1. Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. E. Darwin.
2. Capable of being protruded; protrusile.
Pro*tru"sive*ly, adv. In a protrusive manner.
Pro*tu"ber*ance (?), n. [Cf. F. protubÈrance. See Protuberant.] That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.
Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also solar prominences. See Illust. in Append.
Syn. -- Projection, Protuberance. protuberance differs from projection, being applied to parts that rise from the surface with a gradual ascent or small angle; whereas a projection may be at a right angle with the surface.
Pro*tu"ber*an*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being protuberant; protuberance; prominence.
Pro*tu"ber*ant (?), a. [L. protuberans, -antis, p. pr. of protuberare. See Protuberate.] Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
Pro*tu"ber*ate (?), v. i. [L. protuberare; pro forward + tuber a hump, protuberance. See Tuber.] To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
Pro*tu`ber*a"tion (?), n. The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface. Cooke (1615).
Pro*tu"ber*ous (?), a. Protuberant. [R.]
||Pro`tu*re"ter (?), n. [NL. See Proto-, Ureter.] (Anat.) The duct of a ||pronephros. Haeckel.
Pro"tyle (?), n. [Proto- + Gr. &?; stuff, material.] (Chem. & Astron.) The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.
Proud (?), a. [Compar. Prouder (?); superl. Proudest.] [OE. proud, prout, prud, prut, AS. prt; akin to Icel. prr stately, handsome, Dan. prud handsome. Cf. Pride.] 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: (a) Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek.
Milton.
O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty !
Shak.
And shades impervious to the proud world's glare.
Keble.
(b) Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country. "Proud to be checked and soothed." Keble.
Are we proud men proud of being proud ?
Thackeray.
2. Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. "Of shadow proud." Chapman. "Proud titles." Shak. " The proud temple's height." Dryden.
Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud.
Keble.
3. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. Sir T. Browne.
Proud is often used with participles in the formation of compounds which, for the most part, are self-explaining; as, proud-crested, proud-minded, proud-swelling.
Proud flesh (Med.), a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.
Proud"ish (?), a. Somewhat proud. Ash.
Proud"ling, n. A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
Proud"ly, adv. In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.
Proudly he marches on, and void of fear.
Addison.
Proud"ness, n. The quality of being proud; pride.
Set aside all arrogancy and proudness.
Latimer.
Proust"ite (?), n. [From the French chemist, J. L. Proust.] (Min.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
Prov"a*ble (?), a. [See Prove, and cf. Probable.] Capable of being proved; demonstrable. -- Prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Prov"a*bly, adv.
{ Prov"and (?), Pro"ant (?), } n. [See Provender.] Provender or food. [Obs.]
One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day.
Beau. & Fl.
Pro*vant" (?), v. t. To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for. [Obs.] Nash.
Prov"ant (?), a. Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior. "A poor provant rapier." B. Jonson.
Prove (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Proved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Proving.] [OE. prover, F. prouver, fr. L. probare to try, approve, prove, fr. probus good, proper. Cf. Probable, Proof, Probe.] 1. To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
Thou hast proved mine heart.
Ps. xvii. 3.
2. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
They have inferred much from slender premises, and conjectured when they could not prove.
J. H. Newman.
3. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
4. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.
Spenser.
5. (Arith.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
6. (Printing) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
Syn. -- To try; verify; justify; confirm; establish; evince; manifest; show; demonstrate.
Prove, v. i. 1. To make trial; to essay.
2. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false. "The case proves mortal." Arbuthnot.
So life a winter's morn may prove.
Keble.
3. To succeed; to turn out as expected. [Obs.] "The experiment proved not." Bacon.
Pro*vect" (?), a. [L. provectus, p. p. of provehere to carry forward.] Carried forward; advanced. [Obs.] "Provect in years." Sir T. Flyot.
Pro*vec"tion (?), n. [L. provectio an advancement.] (Philol.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.
Pro*ved"i*tor (?), n. [It. proveditore, provveditore, fr. provedere, L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purveyor, Provedore.] One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. Jer. Taylor.
Prov"e*dore (?), n. [Cf. Sp. proveedor. See Proveditor.] A proveditor; a purveyor.
Busied with the duties of a provedore.
W. Irving.
Prov"en (?), p. p. or a. Proved. "Accusations firmly proven in his mind." Thackeray.
Of this which was the principal charge, and was generally believed to beproven, he was acquitted.
Jowett (Thucyd. ).
Not proven (Scots Law), a verdict of a jury that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though not disproved. Mozley & W.
||Pro`ven`Áal" (?), a. [F., fr. Provence, fr. L. provincia province. ||See Provincial.] Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
||Pro`ven`Áal", n. [F.] 1. A native or inhabitant of Provence in ||France.
2. The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.
Prov"ence rose` (?). [Provence the place + rose.] (a) The cabbage rose (Rosa centifolia). (b) A name of many kinds of roses which are hybrids of Rosa centifolia and R. Gallica.
Pro*ven"cial (?), a. [See ProvenÁal.] Of or pertaining to Provence in France.
Prov"end (?), n. See Provand. [Obs.]